Communities in Malawi use video as a tool to create dialogues and make
their voices heard. Using video helps villagers first review their own
position critically. Then, their representative can present their case
at crucial meetings, reinforced by the video of statements from
villagers. Through this process, communities discover new skills:
researching, analysing, expressing themselves, making presentations,
negotiating and team building. They become self-confident. Women speak
up, even outside their communities. Spokespersons find out who to meet
with, and what they need to do to become part of decision making.
Villages get together to plan around common needs. And, their
representatives become accustomed to reporting back. Proven in Malawi,
these dialogues are now spreading to Vietnam, Ghana, and Sierra Leone.

The CD has the following information for this output: Description,
Validation, Current Situation, Environmental Impact. Attached PDF (9
pp.) taken from the CD.

Citation

FRP48, New technologies, new processes, new policies: tried-and-tested and ready-to-use results from DFID-funded research, Research Into Use Programme, Aylesford, Kent, UK, ISBN 978-0-9552595-6-2, p 113.

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